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Superannuation

S&P upgrades Global Value Fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has upgraded boutique manager Global Value Investors' (GVI) GVI Global Industrial Share Fund to three stars.

RBC Dexia wins $5.6bn custody mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
RBC Dexia Investor Services has won a $5.6 billion (CA$5 billion) custody mandate from fund manager and Insurance Alliance subsidiary IA Clarington Investments.

Investors better off without legacy

Three months after the government issued a consultation paper outlining ways to rationalise more than 6,000 legacy investment products, industry body Investment and Financial Services Association has submitted its own list of recommendations.

GESB trebles co-contributions after campaign

WA-based super fund GESB struck a winning formula after its 'Feed Your Super' campaign attracted three times more member co-contributions than it expected.

Big improvements in Australian corporate governance: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Despite popular perception that Australian companies lag the world on corporate governance (CG), a new study has found a very high awareness and real willingness by companies to constructively engage.

Coombe calls for better super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Superannuation is entering a golden age in Australia and it's time we started to focus on our end-customers, said Rob Coombe, chief executive of wealth management for BT Financial Group when speaking at yesterdays' Association of Super Funds of Australia ...

State Super awards $300m-plus in global property

All this talk about global property must have reached the ears of the powers that be at State Super Financial Services after the group shifted more than $300 million of money out of Australian listed property trusts (LPTs) into global LPTs.

SRI funds beat the index

Sustainable Responsible Investment (SRI) funds are not just good for the soul, they're good for the hip pockets too after yet another study that found SRI portfolios have beaten the index in the last two years.

Industry fund ads off target?

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
Industry superannuation funds need to focus more on member communication, education and online presence, not scaremongering by focussing on fees, according to Vanessa Stoykov, chief executive of marketing, media and communications group Evolution Media.

The long and the short of JANA

Lonsec has upgraded its "investment grade" rating on JANA's long/short funds to "recommended" due to the group's well-resourced and highly experienced research team led by long-time JANA executive John Coombe and new head of Australian equities Aidan ...